Lightspace is a project out ofMicrosoft Research that explores the integration of interactive surfaces across the real world. In this space, almost any surface can be an input device or display. As you watch this, you may notice similarities between Lightspace,Kinect, and Microsoft Surface. This is…

David Gristwood grabs his camera, and heads down to the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge with Dave Brown, an architect at the Microsoft Technology Centre, talks to several
teams at Microsoft Research about their use of F# in part 4 of this video series. Projects discussed include:
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David Gristwood grabs his camera, and heads down to the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge with Dave Brown, an architect at the Microsoft Technology Centre, to talk to Don Syme,
a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, about F# in part 3 of this video series. Don, who created F#,…

David Gristwood grabs his camera, and heads down to the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge with Dave Brown, an architect at the Microsoft Technology Centre, to talk to Don Syme,
a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, about F# in part 2 of this video series. Don, who created F#,…

Joulemeter is a software-based Microsoft Research project designed to measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VMs), servers,
desktops, laptops, and even individual software programs running on a computer.
Joulemeter estimates the energy usage of a VM, computer, or software by measuring…

ScholarLynk is a new tool for scientists and other researchers which Microsoft Research is unveiling this week at ECDL, the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. The project has roots in Lewis Shepherd’s 2008 project called “Research Desktop” which combined…

OK, right up front, I’m not so sure about the name, but these are scientists and engineers, not brand marketers, over there at Microsoft Research, so I’ll give them a pass. In any event, the “RearType” project is definitely an interesting idea, whether or not it makes it into mainstream consumer…

From something as simple as a paperclip to far more complex machines such as computers, there are a wide variety of machines forming a regular part of our daily lives. None, however, come close to the complexity found in the machine that is the human being.When you think of Microsoft, you might…

By Nikolai Tillmann and Mike BarnettLearn how Code Contracts provides a set of tools for design-by-contract programming and how Pex is an advanced unit-testing tool that uses automated program exploration to intelligently create unit tests with high code coverage.
See how they work together so…